Washing-machine



S. GRAY.

WASHING-MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, I920.

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S. GRAY.

WASHING MACHINE.

' APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, [920.

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SAMUEL. GRAY, or OREGON CITY, OREGON:

WASHING-MACHINE.

Application filed February 24, 1920. Serial No. 360,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, SAMUEL GRAY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Oregon City, in the county of Clackamas and State of Oregon, have invented cerclothes rubber, my object being the provision of certain connections whereby to control and actuate the rubber from the hand operated parts in such manner as to permit of the desired rubbing action with minimum wear and tear and thus adapt the machine to the washing of fine fabrics in addition to heavier coarser fabrics.

In carrying out these objects I propose an apparatus in which the flexible rubber is so constructed and so connected to the hand operated parts that its movement will be controlled to an extent sufficient to obviate the need of a guide or guides.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my present invention and forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken in a plane coincident with the upper edge of the clothes receptacle,

Fig. 3 is an end elevation, and,

Fig. 4: is a diagrammatic side view illustrating the movements.

Referring now to these figures my invention proposes the use of a water and clothes receptacle 10 which is preferably rectangular and somewhat greater in length than in width. This receptacle may have handles 11 at its ends to facilitate its movement from place to place and in use is removably supported upon a platform including a series of lengthwise bars 12 supported adjacent to their ends upon cross beams 13, the latter connecting the lower ends of inclined uprights 14 of a pair of side frames.

Each of the side frames also includes an upper lengthwise beam 15 which in the present instance supports a journal block 16 for the reception of the respective reduced cylindrical end 17 of a cross arm 18, through the center of which is extended the central ortion of a handle bar 19, thus mounte to Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 116 29, 1920,

swing vertically between and parallel with the side frames in spaced relation above the upper open end of the receptacle 10. The

cross arm 18 is also provided with a central upright eye 20 from which radiate a plurality of supporting chains 21, and the handle bar 19 has at equi-distantly spaced points upon opposite sides of the said. cross arm, a pair, of depending hooks 22.

The clothes rubber in the present instance is in the form of a flexible web or section of material 23 of somewhat less width than that of the receptacle 10, provided upon its upper surface and at spaced points therealong with exposedcross slats 24. The opposite ends of this rubber, the length of which is suflicient topermit its central portion to-extend within the receptacle 10 and along the base thereof for the major portion of its length, with the ends extending upwardly out of the receptacle, are preferably secured around end cross bars 25 having hooks 26 at their inner surfaces and adjacent to their opposite ends, to receive the outer ends of the controlling chains 21, and having upstanding eyes 27 centrally between their ends to engage the hooks 22 rofthe handle bar 19. V

It will thus be seen that while connected to both the handle bar 19 and the cross arm 18 in such manner as to effectively control its movement in operation, the rubber remains entirely flexible for most effective use in connection with both light and heavy, delicate and rough fabrics, without necessitating the use of guides or any means capable of taking up space within the receptacle or of such nature as might be likely to snag, tear or abrade the clothes within the receptacle.

As seen particularly by reference to Fig. 4, either end of the handle bar 19, or both ends, may be grasped, and when either end is moved downwardly, the side portions of i in this way the clothes have a tendency to maintain a circulation of water therethrough in addition to the rubbing action and air consequently shifting so that the running surface will come into contact at one time or the other with all portions thereof, this action being accomplished as above stated without danger of injury to the fabric either by the rubbing action itself or the presence of anything which might catch and tear the fabrics in their movement.

I claim: 7

1. In a hand washing machine, an upwardly opening receptacle, a flexible rubber having its intermediate portion depending Within the receptacle and having its opposite ends projecting above the opposite ends of the receptacle and provided with rigid cross pieces, a handle bar fulcrumed to rock in a vertical plane above the re ccptacle and to the opposite sides of the fulcrum of which the said cross pieces are detachably connected centrally between their ends, and flexible controlling connections leading from the point of fulcrum of the handle bar in diverging relation and detachably connected to the said cross pieces adjacent to the outer ends of the latter.

2. A hand power washing machine comprising ,an upwardly opening receptacle, a lengthwise IIlOVEtblGflBXlblB rubber having its central portion depending within the receptacle and along the base thereof and hav ing its ends projecting above the receptacle and provided with relatively stifl cross pieces, said rubber having a lengthwise series of cross slats upon its upper surface and having connecting hooks centrally and adjacent to the opposite endsprovided with hooks detachably engaging the said central connecting hooks of the crosspieces of its said end cross pieces, a handle bar having opposite free ends, means forming a cen-' tral fulcrum for the handle bar, and flexible control connections leading from the said the point of the fulcrum and detachably engaging the end connecting hooks of the cross fulcrum forming means approximately at i SAMUEL RA 

